FIRST TIME HEARING - Black Star (Mos Def & Talib Kweli) - Definition (REACTION)

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[@etotheipi42]

The next track on the album is the beat switch “Re:Definition” I think they go together, this was a single and then like Re:Definition is for people with the album. Really the album is a cohesive whole and deserves a full listen

[@02b38]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@virginianatalie2879]

Yes the whole album is 🔥

[@bc3nt]

facts

[@vhughes23]

As much as I like definition, the remix goes so much harder

[@emmanueloganla5953]

re:definition is even better

[@Israel-nb7ip]

Your reaction is EXACTLY WHY we can't respect the nonsense that passes for rap these days. Hip hop music like this was on tap back in the 90s. You HAD to be able to rap back then or wouldn't be taken seriously. This BlackStarr album is a classic as well as Mos Def's first album.

[@tomwatson1]

j cole and kendrick, some have elevated the art of storytelling while keeping the rhymes great

[@Israel-nb7ip]

@@tomwatson1 yeah but too few and far in between. Gotten to the point that anyone who's just competent can immediately be the at the top of the game.

[@ethanpapathomopoulos7579]

youre not in touch with modern music my brotha, It's best to appreciate classic and modern art regardless of when it wasd made. There are plenty of cats spitting real shit today family.

[@Israel-nb7ip]

@@ethanpapathomopoulos7579 yes you're right that there are a lot of real MCs and very good Hip Hop being made right now. I wrote this comment over a year ago and since there's been alot of quality work put out by young and established artists alike. Difference between now and the 90s is that a) now you HAVE TO look for it cuz of the reality of today's media and b) dope lyricists aren't anywhere near as mainstream today as they were in the 90s. Hip Hop back then was way more rhymes focused than 'vibes' or production focused as it is today. Simply facts.

[@BlackenedLiam]

@@tomwatson1 jcole and ken are trash.

[@WestsidePiFF]

This whole album is classic. One of my favorites

[@thelifeandtimesof]

It's timeless.

[@chadjohns6955]

Thieves in the Night is the best cut on the album, but the whole album was priceless

[@andyc6542]

Amen. Miss Hi-Teks production in hip hop…Reflection Eternal almost feels like a companion piece to this album. Sorely longing for the days to come back when there were so many different sounds and sub genres in hip hop. There’s still great hip hop in 2021, but feel that the quality has declined drastically overall since the mid 90s.

[@Genkaku]

Back when everything Rawkus released was classic

[@johncoffey724]

As Jay Z said in his track "Moment of Clarity" - 'If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli' Says it all!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@rambowbizz]

Talib flipped that vese if truth be told I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jayz.

[@rambowbizz]

Talib Ghetto show ft common and anthony Hamilton

[@johncoffey724]

@@rambowbizz he did indeed 👏🏾😊👊🏾

[@afrodysiac105]

Talib Kweli 2000 season bruh 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@buddah1221]

"...truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense (but I did 5 mill) I ain't been rhyming like Common Sense"

[@ShysTBlaze]

Do "Black Star - Redefinition" Its the remix and thats what you heard the beginning of at the end when the beat switched.

[@clarktownsend8991]

There's a reason Jay-z said if he wasn't trying to make money "If skills sold truth be told lyrically I'd be Talib Kweli" on Moment of clarity.

[@etotheipi42]

The other being Mos Def is from his same projects

[@williammccullough2466]

The hook on this song is an homage to Boogie Down Productions "Stop the Violence"; Black Star is home to two of my favorite lyricists of all time: Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and Talib Kweli. You should check out the song "Respiration" they did with Common...one of my favorite songs ever.

[@town_biznessman380]

Facts. The sample contains P is Free, Stop The Violence, The Bridge is Over, by BDP, as well.

[@jasonyoung4513]

He did that song already but Def right bout BDP!!

[@williammccullough2466]

@@jasonyoung4513 I think I saw that reaction...I've seen so many I can't keep track...lol

[@Only1_Owen]

Respiration one of the greatest hip hop songs in history

[@sbeusa6110]

Can't say how happy it makes me to see the young bloods taking an interest in Mos and Talib. These guys are deep - pure and true hip-hop.

[@anthonyanderson9303]

That beat switch actually goes into the next song on the album: Redefinition. That track is fire too.

[@d-money_smoove]

Mos Def in my top 5 all time. Kweli is a beast too. Both have insane depth on where they can take a bar.

[@dreww1609]

"Thieves in the Night" will become one of your all time favorites instantly - its a gem of the art form on every level - beat, lyrics, meaning and also "K.O.S." is the other standout from this album - the flow on "Thieves" over the track - just bliss man...you are killing it lately on some of the racks you are pulling!

[@johnlo6613]

You my friend know wtf you talking about, those are 2 of my fav songs along with Brown Skin Lady. But that’s not to discredit the rest of the album, them joints go crazyyy too! Truly a universal classic

[@EggersEggers-pd6te]

Probably my favorite song on the album & flies so far under the radar. Underrated doesn't properly describe it.💙💎💠

[@williechase1]

Yea it’s two songs in one . Definition and re- definition . This album is insane bro. Def check it out

[@jeremylewis679]

Top 5 IMO.

[@williechase1]

@@jeremylewis679 I have them as my 2nd best duo next to OutKast and they only have one group album . That’s saying alot

[@jeremylewis679]

@@williechase1 outkast catalog is insane. Their best album ain’t better than this album tho.

[@williechase1]

@@jeremylewis679 I like ATLiens and Southernplayalistic a little better than this but Blackstar is better than the other albums . That’s just subjective though. I’m from the south so those first two albums are embedded into my soul lol

[@chaskarocha9926]

That “beat switch” song you’re asking about is called “Re: Definition” which plays directly after this song on their album. I had the pleasure of seeing them perform this whole album live at Red Rocks a few years ago, and when the bassline came in for “Re: Definition,” the whole place went bananas. Truly a moment I won’t forget

[@ynotsl500]

Mos Def was quoting KRS 1 when he said. "Manhattan keeps on making it, Brooklyn keeps on taking it". From the song "The Bridge Is Over". Pioneer 80s hip hop.

[@cibida1]

Dope how you did Bridge is Over before this and peeped the “Manhattan keep on taking it” reference. When this came out I was like 13. Had no clue Bridge is Over even existed at the time until I heard it like ten years ago. Always good to do hip hop homework!

[@KingAhmadTv]

That’s what exactly I was thinking of when I heard it 😂💯

[@kerider3301]

Wow! I can't imagine what it would be like to be a hip hop fan and not know about BDP.

[@cibida1]

@@kerider3301 well they were before my time and streaming hasn’t been around forever.

[@Joe-zk7ps]

So glad to see people discover this album!! It's one of my all time faves

[@Cvillain626]

Mos Def is one of the most slept on rappers out there, glad to see him gettin some love. Been a fan of his ever since I discovered him after Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[@kingrob8548]

Black Star- “Thieves in the night” 🔥🔥🔥 You will love that song

[@lukascalvert6484]

This whole album is a classic….🔥🔥🔥

[@Elticol0co]

I wish you were aware of the cameos made by the people that got in the van Common, Dead Prez, Pbaroahe Monch etc and all the other black bookstore style rappers.

[@mrbogus2you]

Wordsworth also

[@ianbryant824]

…and Tom morello doing a cameo as a cop….

[@curtizluck]

You Have to Do a Show Discipline( Jadakiss & Nas) Life Changer LOL!!!

[@itsdajacket3640]

For real...juice beat

[@mesk412]

1998 was a great year for hip hop. So many classic albums came out that year. Black star, Outkast Aquemini, Big Pun capital punishment, DMX its dark and hot as hell, Busta Rhymes extinction level event, Jay-Z hard knock life vol. 2..... man the list goes on and on. Late nineties early 2000s were really a golden Era.

[@damonjones1291]

"Napoleon Dynamite", Mos Def 🔥

[@klasyk1532]

If you haven't yet, you need to do Mos Def "Ms. Fat Booty" 🔥🔥🔥🔥,, you'll love it

[@Chitown2378]

You should do “Respiration” by BlackStar ft. Common 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mesk412]

That's my favorite track from the album. So good.

[@EggersEggers-pd6te]

@@mesk412 I've always been torn between Respiration & Thieves In The Night. Thieves is such beautiful song, it ain't even funny.💙💎💠

[@mesk412]

@@EggersEggers-pd6te that whole album is such a classic. The late 90s were such a good time for hip hop.

[@EggersEggers-pd6te]

@@mesk412 I know right. I kinda feel bad for anyone who didn't get the chance to grow up as a teen in the 90's. It truly was the best decade.

[@MsFatBooty82]

One of my favourite hip hop tracks of ALL TIME!

[@Freshenstein23]

This whole album is INSANE!! You gotta check how it keep going. Some incredible songs on there that taught me about hip hop

[@montist1]

These guys helped me out at a very low time in my life. Great reaction

[@virginianatalie2879]

Have you heard their song called “History”? It’s my favorite by them. It’s on Mos Def’s album called Ecstatic. He pulled that album from all streaming platforms but you can still find it on KZbin.

[@armandocastro152]

“To much violence in hip hop” damn they were right! Real talk. Much love to Mos and Kweli. Flow, lyrics, beats and message.

[@darksharxz]

You Have Struck Gold Bro ✊🏿

[@chrisisslick]

"LYRICALLY HANDSOME!..."

[@anthonytruman]

Lupe Fiasco, Blu, Homeboy Sandman, Blueprint, Murs, The Grouch, Eligh, Mr. Lif, Atmosphere, Saba, Evidence, Joey Badass are all still making quality lyrical hip hop just to name a few. And Capital STEEZ was before he passed. People never stopped making it, people just started hyping up other stuff

[@binary]

meh, it's all boring now. there arent' really any new lyrics that interesting. and the guys with lyrics have shit beats

[@EricEustace]

On the full album, the song transitions in to "redefinition". It's sort of a remix but not really (they only keep the hook). Definitely check out the whole album if you can. A solid classic 👌👍🙌

[@jasonyoung4513]

"THE BLAST" Talib Kweli n Hi-Tech You will play it for the rest of your Life..🔥🚀

[@2Thessalonians1_7]

Damn, over 20 years later, now I finally understand the part in the music video when the officer asked Hi Tek whether or not he was "Def"

[@jahrelldelgado]

The beat slap. They both did great on this one, but I favor Mos Def his style. The chorus is taken from "Boogie Down Productions - Stop The Violence"

[@bigdaddypiggy]

That right there is 100% pure NYC hip hop to its core….the “essence” of hip hop captured in 1 song by 2 of the greatest MC’s to ever do it 🖤🥶big up Brooklyn from the DMV/Baltimore 🍾y’all be safe

[@christopherclayton7688]

Takes me back to them Rawkus days...I miss that!!

[@KtotheG]

"Manhattan keeps on making it, Brooklyn keeps on taking it" is a quote from KRS One on The Bridge Is Over. It's one of the best diss songs of all time.

[@BuddhaGBahia]

i appreciate how open minded you are. it’s genuinely inspiring. be easy bro.

[@DEVINEJUSTICEALLAH72]

MOS DEF AND TALIB KWELI HAD AMAZING CHEMISTRY ON THIS JOINT. AND HI-TEK PRODUCED A CLASSIC HIP HOP JOINT!! THE WHOLE ALBUM IS DOPE!!!

[@frankiejay015]

Talib Kweli and Mos Def, refreshed hip hop with their dope rhymes and DJ Hi Tek on the track producing. Black Star is the name of the album that song is on. Dope album! ✔ out Talib Kweli's Reflection Eternal album. Best CD I ever bought.. Period! 😎🖖🤓

[@KtotheG]

This song dropped during the summer of '98, a little more than a year after Big's death, so it was still fresh... a lot of artists shouted out Big and Pac in the immediate aftermath.

[@athenry0499]

One of the greatest Hip Hop tunes ever penned.

[@anthonymakiha7523]

love Mos, one of my favourite MC's

[@TripSe7en_77]

Saw the title in my feed, AirPods went in IMMEDIATELY! 😆 Now let me check out this reaction!!

[@johngerstner2030]

Your reactions take me back to the best time, you get home from school go on a break or something. Always bring it bro!

[@jskee2002]

The beat switch is a actual song on the album. As to your other question, if lyricism never comes back there is a mountains worth in the golden era, that’s why we stay right here. Late eighties to the mid 90’s is to Hip Hop what the 70’s is to soul music Also check Mos Def- New World Water

[@DamienJemison]

That album right there deserves a complete review!

[@sopretentious]

Man I wish I could go back and hear this track for the first time again :)

[@juiceplanet147]

DJ Hi Tek produce that joint...he has a some hits too!! THATS HIM DRIVING

[@chadjohns6955]

At the end, that is a remix that's on the album

[@tiffineyo2575]

This song is sampling "The P is Free" by Boogie Down Productions/KRS-ONE

[@agrippusia610]

I have been waiting for this reaction, YESSSIIRRRR!

[@newjack1982]

One of the best hip hop albums. Great time in hip hop. We had so much variety unlike nowadays I can’t tell who’s who. My kids gotta tell me. In my day everybody had their own sound. It was wack to sound like anyone else.

[@ericdennis3899]

This Is My Shiddddddd Ahmad Let's Goooooo My Dude Mos Def & Talib Kweli are REAL MC'S 💯💯💯💯

[@barronanderson569]

Such nostalgia hearing this song

[@nickratliff8062]

One Two Threeeee it's Mos Def and Talib Kweli

[@dcc17833]

Should definitely check Redefinition from them. Mos Def's verse was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. One of my favorites from him

[@yazmynscott2917]

Dollar vans on Eastern Parkway. Memories 💪🏾

[@richarddimeck4578]

Damn I ain't heard this in ages. Suoerb flows from back in the day

[@teflonarmored]

This joint is TIMELESS. Happy bearthday, #hiphop.

[@kelseds]

"RESPIRATION" all time CLASSIC!!!!!! Whole album is dope though!!!1

[@stuartwashington8602]

In 1998 when this song dropped, I was twelve or thirteen, after I had my brain cancer diagnosis and I was home recuperating trying to get my head right, I yearned for conscious Hip Hop. And at the time I loved Talib Kweli's song, "The Blast," and I had no idea how much I was listening to it until my cousin who was like 4 or 5 at the time started rapping the lyrics one day. So when Mos Def and Talib Kweli joined forces to document this masterpiece. I followed the path toward righteous rhyme-writers and now my mind operates from the same plane.

[@skssuccess75]

Classic song here. I recommend you do a reaction to the whole album. The entire album was fire!

[@mikedlc9766]

along with my Megadeth and Cannibal Corpse and Anthrax and Slayer I used to also loved to skate to this track

[@AgentLemmon]

the song on the end is callled Re:definition. A sort of part 2

[@subymanvince]

The beat is from Boogie Down Production's joint "P Is Free (Remix)".

[@bgmethod3989]

Mighty Mos and the Talented Talib! There’s so much on that Blackstar joint. They working on a new one. Check Thieves in the Temple or Brownskin Lady.

[@alexbracetti2569]

Make sure you put Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek) - The Blast on your playlist!

[@deadlyDM]

Gotta add to the love for this album, and yeah this is one you should do a full listen to - front to back classic. No filler. No cap.

[@EggersEggers-pd6te]

Do Thieves In The Night. You won't regret it. It's such a beautiful song. It pulls on your heart strings like nothing else. Respiration is great too. But do the video to that one. The video is the realest rap video ever.💎💠

[@jasonrodgers5533]

-That whole album is a classic -Yes the beat switch is the remix and it is done exactly like that on the album, but the song continues as the next track. So the remix is the next track on the album

[@infamousmobbdeep1]

Classic !

[@yami3960]

One of my faves!

[@neilforbes819]

Just brilliance, cheers Ahmad. Gotta recommend again 'Double Trouble' - The Roots feat Mos Def - I know you'll love it. Peace brother

[@miguels2210]

Mos Def "MS. FAT BOOTY" has def in his story telling mode... Beat CRAZY and the video matches his words WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED I still listen to that track to this day

[@rayraydubb]

🔥classic album!🔥

[@bigb2494]

You got to check out Talib Kweli "Get By " Remix with Mos Def, Jay Z, Kanye and Busta Rhymes

[@thelifeandtimesof]

The track at the end is Re-Defintion.

[@wesh006]

Blackstar - Respiration ft. Common !!

[@rambowbizz]

Talib listen, beautiful struggle, weather report, ect. ect

[@williammccullough2466]

Ooh! Before I forget...check out Travellin' Light by Talib Kweli or Old School by MF Doom and Talib Kweli...

[@ENTERTAINMENT-yv2ll]

Did you notice the legendary MC's who were jumping in and out of the van though?

[@diablo74ify]

The end is the next song on the album

[@seanpens6396]

Contains LMNTS of 3 B.D.P. songs, in the beat , in the flow & in the flip on a cpl bars ..

[@q-dawwg626]

You have to listen to BLACKSTAR complete album,..ITS A MUST

[@matt2270]

Digging in the classic bin

[@deensyed786]

See, look what you did, now I gotta subscribe.

[@RealRight562]

Ok you gettin close... GANGSTARR - Moment Of Truth

[@cinecraze6240]

Blackstar with Black Thought - Respiration remix

[@tupacjarule186]

They slaughtered this shit .

[@reginaldrobinson1714]

Blackstar Redefinition

[@spellit4me559]

Black Star - Twice inna lifetime

[@YourMom-tr5pu]

Great reaction!

[@justkaz1985]

TALIB KWELI & DJ HI TEX- "REFLECTION ETERNAL" IS A BONAFIED CLASSIC ALBUM. KingAhmadTv YOU HAVE TO REACT TO THIS JOINT. IT FLOWS LIKE BUTTER FROM START TO FINISH.✊🏾

[@darth_eldor]

If you liked Kweli's style, listen to Reflection Eternal(Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek) "Move Somethin'", that song is amazing...

[@georgejsalomskasiii3048]

You are too young to know how dope these two are, but I am glad to see you appreciate this .. Top 3 albums for me

[@barnesmalcolm]

Respiration by BlackStar

[@nkc349]

YEZZIR!!!!!!!!!!!